Miss Preakness Stakes

The Adena Stallions' Miss Preakness Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run on Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day (the third Friday in May) at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland as a stakes feature of the undercard. (It was run on Friday, May 15, in 2015.) It's set at a distance of six furlongs on the dirt.

A Grade III event for three-year-old fillies, it offers a purse of $150,000 added. The race was first carded in its inaugural running in 1986. It became graded for the first time in 2002 by the American Graded Stakes Committee. The race was simply called the Miss Preakness Stakes from 1986 through 2003. The race is now known as the "Adena Stallions Miss Preakness Stakes" and has been since 2004.

The race is sponsored by Adena Springs, a breeding operation owned by Magna Entertainment Corporation Chairman, Frank Stronach. Adena Stallions' are the breeding stock stallions at Adena Springs including: Ghostzapper, Macho Uno, Giacomo, Congaree, Awesome Again and Touch Gold in Midway, Kentucky. Adena Springs stallions standing in Ocala, Florida includes Red Bullet, Milwaukee Brew, and Alphabet Soup. The stakes record is held by Lucky Livi who won the race in 2000 in a 1:10.00.